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1. “That’s someone’s daughter.”

This is something I will always hold dear to my heart. My father has a great way of putting things into perspective for me. He made me realize that every girl in this world is not only someone’s daughter, but also a child of God. I should always treat women the same way I would hope someone to treat my future daughter.

When you’ve just come out of a break-up, the last thing you need is another inspirational quote or a friend that wants to talk in a sad voice while slowly rubbing your back and staring at you like they’re watching the first ten minutes of Up. You need to laugh and maybe throw a rock at his window. Instead of committing a crime, let’s go with the laughter option. Here are 20 hilarious tweets on dating that will make being single seem not that bad after all.

When I fast-forward commercials & I go 5 seconds too far my girlfriend reacts as if I’ve just shot her in the face.

It’s the creation of something deeper, something sleeping below a classroom structure. Its meaning is buried underneath flash cards and Power Points, grade checks and rubrics. The surface seems simple and direct — we see the quizzes and cold-calls as clearly as pure rhymes. The bells ring and the lines break and we prepare for the next stanza to take a seat quietly and get to work.

But hanging underneath is something deeper, something unique, something pure to the individual.

Teaching breathes and stretches and transcends like poetry. No two learners can interpret the verse of teaching the same, just as no two teachers can write the same verse. No matter what the rhyme scheme or theme, it is the process of learning that makes education poetry. It is the delicate and personal interaction between two humans sharing a space in mind and body and trying to transfer meaning to…

Summer is upon us. And for some reason, even though it happens every year, the summer season — much like the holiday season, which also happens every year — always feels like a big occasion, something to celebrate and start making resolutions around (e.g., “This summer, I’m really gonna use that National Parks Pass that I bought”). It’s an optimistic sort of celebration because we often don’t even get to enjoy summer weather for most of the time it’s the summer season in San Francisco. But that doesn’t stop us from pursuing all kinds of outdoorsy, summer-typical activities to ring in the months of June, July, and August.

We’ve compiled a big, by-no-means-exhaustive, in-no-particular-order list of activities to go big this summer in San Francisco (and surrounding environs). You could treat it as a literal checklist or just as a bunch of ideas to kickstart your own ideas around what constitutes a summer…